panish coast guard rescued 71 migrants on Tuesday.

Rescue crews searched late into the night on Tuesday for 39 people reported missing in the Atlantic off Florida by a man found clinging to a boat that capsized in what the US Coast Guard called a suspected human smuggling attempt gone awry.

The Italian coast guard at dawn on Thursday rescued 125 migrants who had been spotted forlornly standing on the shores of Isola dei Conigli.

China urges the United States to stop interfering in the affairs of Chinese Taipei and sending wrong signals to separatist forces in the self-governed Chinese island.

China has passed a new law that allows its coast guard, for the first time, to fire on foreign vessels if needed.